It seems to have become a habit that most good things about the internet is linked to the EU. I'm really grateful. That being said, I hope that Lemmy can become a collaborative project uniting a lot of devs rather than rely on two people.

About the scandal; as long as their opinions do not influence the platform I don't see them as relevant to Lemmy. If they are illegal, let justice do its work.

...what scandal?
It appears that they support the CCP and deny the Uyghur genocide.
Any specific link to that?

Not casting any accusation myself, but you could check it out.

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.

I believe those people saying lemmy is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy were being sarcastic. Thanks for rounding this up though, I appreciate people who do the due diligence.

@[email protected] is /u/parentis_shotgun on Reddit. Source: https://archive.is/Ky9vd

  • There is nothing that links to @[email protected] there.

  • Ask yourself: what is this person gaining from spreading misinformation and trying to make people to hate Lemmy developers?